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KNIGHT OF THE SERPENT: The story
is that an "illustrious knight," not otherwise specified, founded the
ORDER OF THE BRAZEN SERPENT -- "in the time of the Crusades" -- for the
relief of pilgrims to Jerusalem. The allusion is of course to the
Serpent uplifted in the wilderness by Moses for the healing of the
children of Israel. There is no very convincing analogy between
ministration to pilgrims and the restoration of those who had been
punished for their disobedience and rebellion, nor can we look for any
light of symbolism in the parable of the Brazen Serpent, for the RITE OF
MEMPHIS -- which dispenses this Grade -- carries little of such light in
its wallet. The Candidate and his sponsor in the Ceremony are children
of Israel who have been "wandering in the wilderness for many days" and
for no particular reason are arrested as spies. When they have justified
themselves there is nothing to do but to pledge, invest and entrust the
Candidate, who receives thereafter the accolade of the Grade and then
listens to a discourse on the antiquity and diffusion of
serpent-worship. It contains no single allusion to the Christian
understanding of the story in the BOOK OF NUMBERS, nor to the commentary
of alchemists thereon, though in the classification of 1856 this Grade
was included in the Senate of Hermetic Philosophers. It ranks as No. 25
in the general enumeration of the RITE OF MEMPHIS and as 15 in the
reduction of the ANTIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITE. It is nothing and leads to
nothing.
-- The Ancient and Primitive Rite of
Memphis and Misraim, Excerpts from "A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry,"
by Arthur Edward Waite

***

Jung noted that there were many accounts in mythology of
the relation between a hero and a serpent, so the presence of the
serpent indicated that "it will again be a hero myth."
-- The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung

CONSCIOUSNESS EQUALS
ENERGY =
LOVE =
AWARENESS =
LIGHT =
WISDOM =
BEAUTY =
TRUTH =
PURITY.
IT'S ALL THE SAME TRIP
IT'S ALL THE SAME
ANY TRIP YOU WANT TO TAKE
LEADS TO THE SAME PLACE

PURIFY ENOUGH
BECOME IMMERSEBEAUTY
BECOMEIT

THE POTTER BECOMES HIS POT
EMBRACE THE 10,000 BEAUTIFUL VISIONS
BECOME1
WITH THE UNIVERSE

The “word”
of the Sepher Jezirah, called in the Secret Doctrine “the One Number
issued from No-Number” — the One Eternal Principle. The esoteric theogony begins with the One, manifested, therefore not eternal in
its presence and being, if eternal in its essence; the number of the
numbers and numbered — the latter proceeding from the Voice, the
feminine Vach, Satarupa “of the hundred forms,” or Nature. It is
from this number 10, or creative nature, the Mother (the occult
cypher, or “nought,” ever procreating and multiplying in union with
the Unit “1,” one, or the Spirit of Life), that the whole Universe
proceeded.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

Now as yet we
had not seen the dead body of our careful and wise father, we therfore
removed the Altar aside, there we lifted up a strong plate of brass, and
found a fair and worthy body, whole and unconsumed, as the same is here
lively counterfeited, with all the Ornaments and Attires; in his hand he
held a parchment book, called I. the which next to the Bible, is our
greatest treasure.
-- Fama Fraternitatis, by
Wikipedia

ALL THE ENERGY
PASSES THRU YOU
YOU ARE ALL THE ENERGY

& IT ALL RESIDES IN YOUR HEART
IF YOU CAN GO WITHIN TO YOUR SPIRITUAL HEART
YOUR HRIDAYAM
YOU WILL THEN KNOW THAT:YOU ARE HE

Let us remember how it is
written and said that the soul of Christ had two eyes, a right and a
left eye. In the beginning, when the soul of Christ was created, she
fixed her right eye upon eternity and the Godhead, and remained in the
full intuition and enjoyment of the divine Essence and Eternal
Perfection; and continued thus unmoved and undisturbed by all the
accidents and travail, suffering, torment and pain that ever befell the
outward man. But with the left eye she beheld the creature and perceived
all things therein, and took note of the difference between the
creatures, which were better or worse, nobler or meaner; and thereafter
was the outward man of Christ ordered.

Thus the inner man of Christ, according to the right eye of His soul,
stood in the full exercise of His divine nature, in perfect blessedness,
joy and eternal peace. But the outward man and the left eye of Christ's
soul, stood with Him in perfect suffering, in all tribulation,
affliction and travail; and this in such sort that the inward and right
eye remained unmoved, unhindered and untouched by all the travail,
suffering, grief and anguish that ever befell the outward man. It hath
been said that when Christ was bound to the pillar and scourged, and
when He hung upon the cross, according to the outward man, yet His inner
man, or soul according to the right eye, stood in as full possession of
divine joy and blessedness as it did after His ascension, or as it doth
now. In like manner His outward man, or soul with the left eye, was
never hindered, disturbed or troubled by the inward eye in its
contemplation of the outward things that belonged to it.

Now the created soul of man hath also two eyes. The one is the power of
seeing into eternity, the other of seeing into time and the creatures,
of perceiving how they differ from each other as afore-said, of giving
life and needful things to the body, and ordering and governing it for
the best. But these two eyes of the soul of man cannot both perform
their work at once; but if the soul shall see with the right eye into
eternity, then the left eye must close itself and refrain from working,
and be as though it were dead.

For if the left eye be fulfilling its office toward outward things; that
is, holding converse with time and the creatures; then must the right
eye be hindered in its working; that is, in its contemplation. Therefore
whosoever will have the one must let the other go; for "no man can serve
two masters."

Wuotan appears before our eyes as the reflection of the All as
an
individual self: "He consecrates himself, consecrated to himself,"
he
consecrates himself -- as a self-sacrificer to himself as a
self-sacrifice -- to
the passing away in order to arise anew. The nearer he feels to the
point in time for this passing away toward a new arising -- his death
-- the
clearer the knowledge grows in him about the secret of life which is
an eternal arising and passing away, a constant transformation,
an
eternal
return [ewige Wiederkehr] -- a life of constant cycle of being born
and
dying. "This knowledge completely arises in him only at that twilight-moment
in which he is sinking (dying) into the Ur out of which he will
once more arise, and in this twilight-moment (death) he gives his
eye as a
pledge in exchange for elevated knowledge. However, this eye remains
his property -- even if it has been pawned. He will reclaim it upon
his
rebirth out of the Ur. For this one is is his physical body, while
his
other eye, which he retains and takes with him into the Ur, is his
spiritual body, his soul. The one physical eye, that is, the physical
body
itself, is only temporarily lost in the transitional phase of death,
but it
nevertheless remains his own, and is reunified with his other
(spiritual)
eye at the moment of his return out of the Ur -- upon his rebirth.
This latter is his spiritual body (the soul), but the primeval knowledge
gained from Mimir's well also remains his property upon his rebirth,
i.e. the property of the All. It is the sum of the experience (Gjallar)
of thousands upon thousands of ages which is preserved and inherited --
unconsciously through the mind and consciously through language and
writing. Thus
the knowledge of Wuotan, and that of each individual self, is
increased by
means of the drink from Mimir's well using the Gjallarhorn, he
enriches it through his questions to the Wala (Lady of Death,
Totenwal, Helja), as well as through his dialog with Mimir's
head. Through this knowledge he became wise and found both the
science surrounding the fate of the world by his own life being
consecrated to death, and the solution to the riddle of the cosmos,
which
-- as it says in the "Runatals thattr Odins" -- "he will never ever
reveal to a woman or a girl."

If a master, in imitation of Wuotan the
"transformer"
[wandler] (not the "wanderer" [wanderer]), slowly but surely
acquires
knowledge through constant transformation (being born, living,
dying,
entering the primeval state, and being reborn), through constant
pledging
of his one eye in the cycle of immeasurable spans of time, and
through all
of this finds the lost name of the divinity, then he himself
becomes the
hawk that sits between the two eyes of the eagle, then he will no
longer
be reborn, for then he will have found the lost master-word, and
then he
himself will have become God.

They strew in the path of kings and czars
Jewels and gems of price:
But for thy head I will pluck down stars,
And pave thy way with eyes.
I have sought for thee a costlier dome
Than Mahmoud’s palace high,
And thou, returning, find thy home
In the apple of Love’s eye.
-- Hafiz, quoted in
Letters and Social Aims, by
Ralph Waldo Emerson

***

And the real symbolism of the pyramid is alchemical, of
course. The traditional code represents the three kinds of sex by a
cube, a pyramid, and a sphere. The cube is that travesty we call 'normal
sex, in which the two nervous systems never actually merge at the
orgasm, like the two parallel sides of the cube. The pyramid is the two
coming together and joining, the magical-telepathic orgasm. The sphere
is the Tantric ritual, endlessly prolonged, with no orgasm at all. The
alchemists used that code for over two thousand years. The Rosicrucians
among the founding fathers used the pyramid as a symbol of their kind of
sex magic. Aleister Crowley used that symbol the same way, more
recently. The eye on the pyramid is the two minds meeting. Neurological
interlock. The opening of the Eye of Shiva. Ewige Schlangekraft—the
eternal serpent power. The joining of the Rose and Cross, vagina and
penis, into Rose-Cross. The astral leap. Mind escaping from physiology.
-- The Illuminatus! Trilogy, by Robert
Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

***

Said R. Hizkiah: 'I have learnt something about this
which I hardly like to disclose, showing how wisdom is embodied in a
common practice.' R. Abba clapped him on the shoulder, saying: 'Speak
out and do not be afraid; in the days of R. Simeon there is no need for
secrecy.' He then said: 'I have seen in the chapter of R. Jesse the
Elder regarding customs, that if a man has a son, when he dies the son
ought to put dust on his eyes at the time of his burial, and this is a
mark of respect to him, being a sign that the world is now concealed
from him, but his son inherits the world in his place. For the human eye
represents the world with its various colours. The outer ring of white
corresponds to the sea of Oceanus which surrounds the whole world. The
next colour represents the land which is surrounded by the sea. A third
colour in the middle of the eye corresponds to Jerusalem, which is in
the centre of the world. Finally there is the pupil of the eye, which
reflects the beholder and is the most precious part of all. This
corresponds to Zion, which is the central point of the universe, in
which the reflection of the whole world can be seen, and where is the
abode of the Shekinah, which is the beauty and the cynosure of the
world. Thus the eye is the heritage of the world, and so as the father
leaves it the son inherits it.' Said R. Abba : 'You are quite right. But
there is still a deeper significance in the practice, although men do
not know it. For when a man departs from the world, his soul is still
enclosed in him, and before his eyes are closed they see certain
recondite things, as we have explained in connection with the verse,
"For a man shall not see me and live", indicating that they see things
in their death which they do not see in their life-time. Then it behoves
those who are present to place their hands on his eyes and close them,
and, as we have learnt in connection with customs and manners, if he has
a son, it behoves the son in the first place to do so, as it is written,
"And Joseph shall put his hand on thy eyes." The reason for the closing
of the eyes is because some sight the reverse of holy might present
itself, and it is not meet that the eyes which have just beheld a holy
vision should now dwell on a sight of a different character. A further
reason is that the soul is still attached to him in the house, and if
the eye is left open, with that unholy vision still resting upon it,
everything it looks upon is cursed; and this is not respectful to the
eye, to allow it to gaze upon anything improper. The best sign of
respect, therefore, is that a man's eyes should be closed by the hand of
the son whom he has left behind him.'
-- The Zohar, translated by Harry
Sperling and Maurice Simon

& IT IS FROM THIS PLACE IN OUR HEART CAVE
WHERE WE ARE NOW
WE WATCH THE ENTIRE DRAMA
THAT IS OUR LIVES
WE WATCH THE ILLUSION
WITH UNBEARABLE COMPASSION

THERE IS WRITING HAPPENING
MAYBE THAT'S HARD FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND
I AM HERE BUT "I" AM NOT HERE.
I AM WRITING BUT "I" AM NOT WRITING
INSIDE OF ME IN THE HEART CAVE IS A
MANTRA GOING ON THAT REMINDS ME
WHO I REALLY AM
OVER AND OVER AGAIN
IN THIS INNER PLACEI AM

The
fundamental principle, is the reconciliation of the opposites. We
cannot choose one opposite over another. We must experience the
relationship between the two and reconcile them into a higher
synthesis. This does not mean to be in the middle. For instance, the
proper balance between wealth and poverty is not the mathematical
average between $1,000,000 and $1, i.e. $500,000. There are people who
are poor at $1,000,000, others who are rich at $1. Reconciling the
opposites is not that simple. It would be a great help if someone
who has gone before us would describe the experience. What would he say
of himself if he had reconciled the opposites? I AM the bread of life
(John 6:35); I AM the light of the world (John 8:12); I AM the door of
the sheepfold (John 10:7); I AM the good shepherd (John 10:11); I AM the
resurrection and the life (John 11:25); I AM the way the truth and the
life (John 14:6); I AM the true vine (John 15:1). "I AM" is the most
powerful statement any person can make.
-- Reconciliation, Orientation
and Unity, by
Jack Courtis, Rosicrucian Archive

***

It is not the comments or harangues of unlearned and fanatical preachers
that I have in
my mind, but sermons of great and deserved celebrity, and
divines whose learning, well-regulated zeal, and sound scriptural
views are as honourable to the established church, as their piety,
beneficence and blameless life, are to the Christian name, when I say that passages occur which might almost lead one to conjecture,
that the authors had found the words, "I will come
and join you," instead of, "I am in the midst of you," -- (Compare
1. John, III. 24) -- passages from which it is at least difficult not
to infer, that they had interpreted the promise, as of a corporal
co-presence, instead of a spiritual immanence () as of an individual coming in or down, and taking a place, as
soon as the required number of petitioners was completed! As if, in short,
this presence, this actuation of the "I AM," () were an after-consequence, an accidental and
separate result and reward of the contemporaneous and contiguous
worshipping -- and not the total act itself, of which the spiritual Christ,
one and the same in all the faithful, is the
originating and perfective focal unity. Even as the physical life is
in each limb and organ of the body, "all in every part;"
but is manifested as life, by being one in all and thus making all
one: even so with Christ, our Spiritual Life! He is in each true
believer, in his solitary prayer and during his silent communion in the watches of the
night, no less than in the congregation of
the faithful; but he manifests his indwelling presence more
characteristically, with especial evidence, when many, convened in his name, whether for prayer
or for council, do through him become ONE.
-- On
the Constitution of the Church and State, According to the Idea of Each;
With Aids Toward a Right Judgment on the Late Catholic Bill, by Samuel
Taylor Coleridge

***

Ibn Mansur Al Hallaj, the "Qu'ranic Christ," making
the dangerous and fatal "ejaculation," 'ANA' L HAQ (I AM the Truth)
IF HALLAJ HAD SAID
"ALLAH AL HAZ -- GOD (IN HIS TRANSCENDENTAL ASPECT) IS THE
TRUTH, OR "HUWA AL HAQ" (HE IS THE TRUTH) IT WOULD HAVE BEEN
A COMMON STATEMENT. HOWEVER AL HALLAJ DECLARED THAT
GOD ALONE EXISTS: THEREFORE HE IS THE ONE SUBJECT AND THUS
HE ALONE CAN WITNESS HIS EXISTENCE.-- Toward the One,
by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan

***

Take the famous utterance, 'I am God.' Some men reckon it as a great
pretension; but 'I am Gael' is in fact a great humility. The man who
says 'I am the servant of God' asserts that two exist, one himself and
the other God. But he who says 'I am God' has naughted himself and cast
himself to the winds. He says, 'I am God': that is, 'I am not, He is
all, nothing has existence but God, I am pure non-entity, I am nothing.'
In this the humility is greater.
--
Discourses of Rumi, translated
by A. J. Arberry

When what we should term the historical age emerged from
the twilight of tradition, the Ana
were already established in different communities, and had attained to a
degree of civilisation very analogous to that which the more advanced
nations above the earth now enjoy. They were familiar with most of our
mechanical inventions, including the application of steam as well as
gas. The communities were in fierce competition with each other. They
had their rich and their poor; they had orators and conquerors, they
made war either for a domain or an idea. Though the various states
acknowledged various forms of government, free institutions were
beginning to preponderate; popular assemblies increased in power;
republics soon became general; the democracy to which the most
enlightened European politicians look forward as the extreme goal of
political advancement, and which still prevailed among other
subterranean races, whom they despised as barbarians, the loftier family
of Ana, to which belonged the tribe I was visiting, looked back to as
one of the crude and ignorant experiments which belong to the infancy of
political science. It was the age of envy and hate, of fierce passions,
of constant social changes more or less violent, of strife between
classes, of war between state and state. This phase of society lasted,
however, for some ages, and was finally brought to a close, at least
among the nobler and more intellectual populations, by the gradual
discovery of the latent powers stored in the all-permeating fluid which
they denominate vril.
-- The Coming Race, by Edward Bulwer
Lytton

Aham Brahmasmi. Translation:
aham = I; Brahmasmi = am Brahman. Meaning: I am Brahman....It
is an expression of "I am ness".... We can discern at least five
different states of "I am ness" in beings (jivas). The fifth one is the
state of "I am I am"....This is a pure state of "I am only". This is the
indescribable state of Brahman in its absolute aspect....In
Atman every experience is subjective. Atman does not interact with
any object or use any external means to know or experience. It exists by
itself and knows by itself. In contrast the experience of elemental self
is objective....All is Brahman. There is nothing else other than
Brahman. He is the cause of all causes. He is also called Atman. In
reality there is no distinction between the two. Atman is another name
of Brahman or a mental construct we use to make sense of Brahman as the
self of individual beings. There may be many beings in the creation, but
there is only one Brahman in all of them. During creation Brahman
projects himself out as everything and at the end of creation withdraws
everything into himself. The phenomenal world is unreal. It an illusion
or an apparition, which disappears when we overcome our ignorance and
realize the true state of Brahman.
--Aham Brahmasmi, by Jayaram V,
Hindu Website,com

The author is reminded of William Dudley Pelley, the
leader of the fascist Silver Shirts organization of the 1930s, who
eventually abandoned organized Nazism and went on to help found the "I
AM" movement: a cult that believes in ongoing human contact with alien
space creatures, and Soulcraft, a similar movement. To Pelley, the
"Aryans" are descendants of an alien Master Race.
-- Unholy Alliance: A History of
Nazi Involvement with the Occult, by Peter Levenda

***

Some of the original members of the original Ascended
Master Teachings religion, the "I AM" Activity, were recruited from the
ranks of William Dudley Pelley’s organization the Silver Legion.
-- Silver Legion of America, by
Wikipedia

***

THE term “New Age” was restricted, until the late 1960s,
to a relatively narrow group of people, although the New Aeon concept
has been present in esoteric circles from the beginning of the Twentieth
Century. The popular culture of the 1960s brought the idea into focus
for large numbers of people, which have continued to increase.

One of the first ventures beyond the immediate confines
of the occult movement (which had a hard core of mere hundreds) was in
Guy Warren Ballard’s I AM movement. The term I AM became, for many
years, a kind of “cipher signal” held in common by those ‘in the know’
about the New Age movement. In the 1960s, the term I AM began to be
replaced by the metaphysical cipher WE ARE ONE....

It is rumored that Ballard’s son Mark, who virtually
disappeared during a period of legal trouble for his father, resurfaced
as the famous trance channel Mark Prophet, one of the key players in the
modern “New Age” movement.

I AM = 45 = NOT. I AM was replaced by the phrase WE ARE ONE = 112 = WHO
AND WHAT I AM. It is also the value of Ballard’s student George Hunt
Williamson’s magical name MARK III. WE ARE ONE also equals WORD OF THE
LAW. NEW AGE = 79 = WILL KEY.

AND EVEN AS I WRITE, WHERE THIS
MANTRA IS GOING ON I'M JUST WATCHING WITHGREAT AWE AND WONDER

THE AWESOME DRAMA OF NATURE
UNFOLD BEFORE MY VERY EYE
BEFORE THAT EYE I I WHICH
SEES ALL AND KNOWS ALL.
AND ON
AND ON
INSIDE GOES:AUM MANI PADME HUM
ALWAYS BRINGING ME RIGHT TO MY HEART
WHERE I DWELL ETERNALLY.

WHEN YOU HAVE QUIETED YOUR MIND
ENOUGH
AND TRANSCENDED YOUR EGO
ENOUGH
YOU CAN HEAR HOW IT REALLY IS. SO:
WHEN YOU ARE WITH A CANDLEFLAME
YOU ARE THE CANDLEFLAME
AND WHEN
YOU ARE WITH ANOTHER BEING'S MIND
YOU ARE THE OTHER BEING'S MIND
WHEN
THERE IS A TASK TO DO
YOU ARE THE TASK

THE MINDLESS QUALITY OF TOTAL INVOLVEMENT
THAT COMES ONLY WHEN THE EGO IS QUIET
AND THERE IS NO ATTACHMENT

IT IS ONLY WHEN YOU RESIDE QUIETLY
IN YOUR OWN HRIDAYAM
THAT YOU BECOMEHE OF TOTAL LIGHTUNBEARABLE COMPASSION
AND INFINITE POWER

SEE:
IF YOU GET FAR ENOUGH IN
YOU CAN SEE ... KARMA
YOU CAN SEE PATTERNS UNFOLDING
(OF WHICH THIS LIFE
IS ONLY A PART
PART OF A MOSAIC)
BUT:
IN ORDER TO DO THAT
YOU HAVE TO HAVE LEFTTHE GRAVITATIONAL FIELD
OF TIME AND SPACE
(AS A MATRIX)
YOU CAN'T THINK IN ... TIME & SPACE

Mandamus
4

Mandamus 4,
which is to be read in your fourth week, begins -- in a very subtle way
-- to separate members from the world as they knew it and put them under
the complete control of AMORC. The technique used for this purpose is
called "Redefining the concept of time."

In very slick
and persuasive language, Mandamus 4 explains that the concept of time is
wrongly defined in the ordinary world. Of course AMORC has the "right"
definition of the concept of time.

In the Mandamus,
AMORC criticizes today's scientific view of time. Since time is such a
basic concept, a concept generally defined and utilized by science,
getting the member to accept the Rosicrucian definition is a big step in
disengaging him from the authority of science and outside standards for
reasoning about things in the ordinary world.

If AMORC can
succeed in creating this level of doubt about science, the member will
be forced into reconsidering the validity of many things he might
believe. This is part of what Schein calls the "unfreezing" stage, where
the basic concepts of a new recruit into a cult are forever shaken up.

Despite the
language of the monograph, it was hard for me to completely grasp the
Rosicrucian claim that their wisdom could redefine time. Let us say that
in distinguishing between objective measures of time (like a pendulum,
an hourglass, or a clock) and subjective experiences of time (as when
one is watching an exciting movie, engaged in a deeply engrossing
conversation, or sharing a highly romantic moment), one notices that the
experience of time can depart very much from any kind of objective
measurement. Subjectively, time can move slowly or very quickly.

Here are some
more examples of the types of exercises outlined in Mandamus 4:

1. Have the
postulant walk down a certain road, then go back and ride on that
same road by bicycle. Finally, have the postulant drive a car on the
same road. Have the postulant make a note of his impressions.

2. Walk for
fifteen minutes in a straight line in a place that, scenically, is
just ordinary, nothing special. Then, choosing a place that is
scenically very beautiful, take a walk for the same length of time,
in a not-so-straight line. Have the postulant make a note of their
impressions.

These
experiments prove that, although the objective measurements of time
spent may be completely the same, the subjective arena is vastly
different. Objective and subjective criteria are quite different. The
Rosicrucian concept of time, as proposed by AMORC, stresses the
subjective and casts doubt on the importance of the objective.

Since the
Mandamus indicates, but does not closely define, the Rosicrucian concept
of time, the suggested constant rereading of the home-study lessons and
meditating on their contents merely reinforces AMORC's point of view,
which is that subjective time somehow trumps and is more real than
objective time.

Mandamus
5

After rejecting
the contemporary scientific view of time in Mandamus 4, AMORC addresses
the scientific view of space in Mandamus 5.

Again, the
dictionary definition of space, which reflects the contemporary
scientific world view, is wrong. The AMORC definition of space is the
right one. To validate the so-called Rosicrucian view, this monograph
quotes ancient mystical and spiritual writings to support its position.

I am troubled
particularly by a phrase from this monograph: "The Rosicrucians have
asserted for centuries ... " The question here is, who?
Rosicrucians from a variety of orders, representing a common view of
space? Or AMORC, a monolithic organization whose archives exclusively
bear the secret fruits of ages of study? The answer, as exhibited in the
monographs, is AMORC itself.

This
not-so-subtle claim of authority caused me to doubt my desire to leave
AMORC when I began to question the validity of the Rosicrucian message.
Was I really informed enough to question their authority? If these
people know so much that they have affirmed these things for centuries,
who was I to question them?

Basically, AMORC
claims that time does not exist for a Rosicrucian -- except, of course,
when your membership fee is due. In fact, time becomes so real at this
point that you become very aware that if your membership commitments
aren't met on time, you will be automatically cut from the egregore.

Severing one's
connection to the egregore, the sacred pattern of the order on other
planes, may not sound so severe to an outsider, but to a Rosicrucian now
dependent on the organization, this is a powerful threat. Remember that
a Rosicrucian believes that his fundamental connection to God is linked
to his association with the egregore of AMORC.

YOU CAN'T BE IN ... YOUR THOUGHTS
ANY MORE!
BECAUSE: YOUR THOUGHTS ARE STILL IN TIME
& SPACE & YOU CAN'T GET OUT OF TIME
THROUGH THEM. YOU'VE GOT TO BE OUTSIDE
THAT. YOU'VE GOT TO BE IN THE PLACE WHERE
YOU SEE YOUR OWN

BIRTH * CHILDHOOD * ADOLESCENCE * MATURITY * AGE * DEATH * CONCEPTION
AND:
NOT ONLY THAT ONE BUT THAT ONE & THAT TOO ...
THAT ONE & ...

It was the celestial or ætherial principle of the human mind, which the
ancient
artists represented under the symbol of the butterfly, which may be
considered as one of the most elegant allegories of their elegant
religion. This
insect, when hatched from the egg, appears in the shape of a grub,
crawling upon
the earth, and feeding upon the leaves of plants. In this state, it was
aptly made
the emblem of man, in his earthly form, in which the ætherial vigour and
activity
of the celestial soul, the divine particula mentis, was supposed to be
clogged and
incumbered with the material body. When the grub was changed to a
chrysalis,
its stillness, torpor, and insensibility seemed to present a natural
image of death,
or the intermediate state between the cessation of the vital functions
of the body
and the final releasement of the soul by the fire, in which the body was
consumed. The butterfly breaking from the torpid chrysalis, and mounting
in the
air, was no less natural an image of the celestial soul bursting from
the restraints
of matter, and mixing again with its native æther. The Greek artists,
always
studious of elegance, changed this, as well as other animal symbols,
into a human
form, retaining the wings as the characteristic members, by which the
meaning
might be known. The human body, which they added to them, is that of a
beautiful girl, sometimes in the age of infancy, and sometimes of
approaching
maturity. So beautiful an allegory as this would naturally be a favourite subject
of art among a people whose taste
had attained the utmost pitch of refinement.
-- A Discourse on the
Worship of Priapus: And Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of
the Ancients, by Richard Payne Knight

I AM WITHOUT FORM
WITHOUT LIMIT
BEYOND SPACE BEYOND TIME
I AM IN EVERYTHING
EVERYTHING IS ME
I AM THE BLISS OF THE UNIVERSE.EVERYTHING
AM I
RAM TIRTHA

We must, moreover, remind those who try
to prove that the ancient Egyptians knew nothing of and did not teach
Reincarnation, that the “Soul” of the defunct is said to be living in
Eternity: it is immortal, “co-eval with, and disappearing with the Solar
boat,” i.e., for the cycle of necessity. This “Soul” emerges from the
Tiaou (the realm of the cause of life) and joins the living on Earth by
day, to return to Tiaou every night. This expresses the periodical
existences of the Ego.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

The solar barge is a common motif in ancient Egypt. The
barge was seen as the typical means of movement of the sun. In
Egyptian mythology, the Sun God struggled against the monster Aphophis, who attempted to
swallow the solar barge as it traveled across the heavens each day. In
Transformations and Symbols of the Libido (1912) Jung discussed the Egyptian "living sun-disc"
(CW B, §153) and the motif of the sea monster (§ 549f). In his 1952
revision of this text, he noted that the battle with the sea monster
represented the attempt to free ego-consciousness from the grip of the
unconscious (Symbols of Transformation, CW 5, §539). The solar barge
resembles some of the illustrations in the Egyptian Book of the Dead
(ed. E. A. Wallis Budge [London: Arkana, 1899 / 1985]), i.e., the
vignettes on pp. 390, 400, and 404). The oarsman is usually a
falcon-headed Horus. The night journey of the sun God through the
underworld is depicted in the Amduat, which has been seen as
symbolic process of transformation.
-- The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung

For what is the Tiaou? The
frequent allusion to it in the “Book of the Dead” contains a mystery.
Tiaou is the path of the Night Sun, the inferior hemisphere, or the
infernal region of the Egyptians, placed by them on the concealed side
of the moon. The human being, in their esotericism, came out from the
moon; he crossed the whole cycle of existence and then returned to his
birth-place before issuing from it again. Thus the defunct is shown
arriving in the West, receiving his judgment before Osiris, resurrecting
as the god Horus, and circling round the sidereal heavens, which is an
allegorical assimilation to Ra, the Sun; then having crossed the Noot
(the celestial abyss), returning once more to Tiaou: an assimilation to
Osiris, who, as the God of life and reproduction, inhabits the moon.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

***

One day the father of the gods swallowed the female Titan
Metis. (In Greek, metis means “wisdom”.) “Wisdom” survived in his belly
and gave him advice from there. According to this story then, Zeus’s
sole contribution toward the development of “his” wisdom was a cunning
swallow. With this coarse but effective method (upaya) he could now
present himself as the fount of all wisdom. He even became, through the
birth of Athena, the masculine “bearer” of feminine prajna. Metis, the
mother of Athena, actually gives birth to her daughter in the stomach of
the father of the gods, but it is he who brings her willy-nilly into the
world. In full armor, Athene, herself a symbol of wisdom, bursts from
the top of Zeus’s skull. She is the “head birth” of her father, the
product of his ideas. Here, the swallowing of the feminine and its
imaginary (re)production (head birth) are the two techniques (upaya)
with which Zeus manipulates wisdom (prajna, Metis, Athene) to his own
ends ... the symbolic scenario of alchemy: the swallowing of the moon
(of the feminine) by the sun (the masculine).
-- The Shadow of the Dalai Lama, by Victor &
Victoria Trimondi

***

According to Jan van
Helsing (Geheimgesellschaften und ihre Macht ... [“Secret Societies and
their Power”], 1993), Tibetan monks worked together with Templar Knights
who were organized in the highest lodge of the “black sun” on the
establishment of the Third Reich. The secret order had (and still has)
an important base underground in the Himalayas. The ruler of the
underground kingdom is said to be “Rigden Iyepo”, the king of the world,
with his representative on the surface, the Dalai Lama. In Die schwarze
Sonne von Tashi Lhunpo [The Black Sun of Tashi Lhunpo] (1996), McCloud
reports on the survival of the national socialist Thule group in Tibet.
They are the followers of a “sun oracle” there. For Wilhelm Landig (Götzen
gegen Thule ... [Idols against Thule], n.d.), Tibet is also “the realm
of the black sun!"

The THIRD GRADE OF ELECT MASON,
which proves to be one of Knighthood: Chevalier Elu, Troisieme
Grade, governed by a Most Illustrious Grand Master. It opens at
midnight, but a sun shines thereon, for it is in the full light of
Christianity, the chivalry being devoted by day either to warfare with
the infidels or to works of hospitality, while at midnight they give
account of their progress. The Historical Discourse is important, as it
comprises a particular version of the alleged transmission of Masonic
secrets from the age of Solomon to that of the Crusades. It sets aside
as fabulous those reveries which ascribe the origin of Masonry to Moses,
Noah and Enoch. The true history of the Institution begins with Solomon
and that of the Elect Grades with the Nine Masters, chosen to go in
search of the traitors who assassinated the Master-Builder. When the
Temple was finished these Masters elected a Chief, and when they found
anyone who deserved to be enrolled among them he was pledged to faith in
God, loyalty towards princes, charity towards Brethren and neighbours.
They withdrew from worldly business, spending their life in prayer and
ministering to the needs of the poor. The majority of these Illustrious
Companions embraced Christianity when its light dawned on the world, and
were more devoted than ever to works of mercy. The Order is said to have
flourished till the end of the seventh century, after which it declined,
till at the opening of the twelfth century it was reduced to a few
persons gathered in a single Lodge, but following strictly therein its
rule of life. This Lodge seems to have been established in Palestine,
and indeed it is not suggested that the chivalry had existed so far
outside the Holy Land. Various Christian pioneers joined its ranks
during the Crusades, all indifferently being pledged to the rebuilding
of Christian Temples, for it appears that the Chevaliers Elus
still held themselves Masons. A time came when the Order united with
that of St. John of Jerusalem. In this manner, carried back by Crusading
royalties and nobles, it began to be known in Europe. Lodges were
established in Italy, Spain, France, England, whence it passed into
Scotland and took root at Kilwinning. When Edward the Black Prince
returned from the eighth and last Crusade he became Protector of the
Order in England, where it assumed the name of Freemasonry.-- The Ancient
and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim, Excerpts from "A New
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry," by Arthur Edward Waite

***

Leave me alone! Leave me alone! I am too pure for thee.
Touch me not! Hath not my world just now become perfect? My skin is too
pure for thy hands. Leave me alone, thou dull, doltish, stupid day! Is
not the midnight brighter? The purest are to be masters of the world,
the least known, the strongest, the midnight-souls, who are brighter and
deeper than any day. ...Just now hath my world become perfect, midnight
is also mid-day.
-- Thus
Spake Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche

***

And thus I went out in that night
(it was the second night of the year 1914), and anxious expectation
filled me. I went out to embrace the future. The path was wide and what
was to come was awful. It was the enormous dying, a sea of blood. From
it the new sun arose, awful and a reversal of that which we call day. We
have seized the darkness and its sun will shine above us, bloody and
burning like a great downfall."
-- The Red Book:
Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung

WHO'S ADVENTUROUS ENOUGH TO WANT TO GO
ON THAT JOURNEY?
DO YOU REALIZE WHEN YOU GO ON THAT JOURNEY
IN ORDER TO GET TO THE DESTINATIONYOU
CAN NEVER GET TO THE DESTINATION?
IN THE PROCESSYOU
MUST DIEMUST DIE

There is a deep philosophy underlying the
earliest worship in the world, that of the Sun and of Fire. What says
the esoteric teaching with regard to fire? “Fire,” it says, “is the most
perfect and unadulterated reflection, in Heaven as on Earth, of the One
Flame. It is Life and Death, the origin and the end of every material
thing. It is divine ‘Substance.’” Thus, not only the Fire-Worshipper,
the Parsee, but even the wandering savage tribes of America, which
proclaim themselves “born of fire,” show more science in their creeds
and truth in their superstitions, than all the speculations of modern
physics and learning. The Christian who says: “God is a living Fire,”
and speaks of the Pentecostal “Tongues of Fire” and of the “burning
bush” of Moses, is as much a fire-worshipper as any other “heathen.” The
Rosicrucians, among all the mystics and Kabalists, were those who
defined Fire in the right and most correct way. Procure a sixpenny lamp,
keep it only supplied with oil, and you will be able to light at its
flame the lamps, candles, and fires of the whole globe without
diminishing that flame.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

NOW: WE'LL MAKE THE JOURNEY
AS COMFORTABLE AS POSSIBLE
BUT: YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT
(AFTER YOU PASS THROUGH THE VAN ALLEN BELT)
YOU'RE GOING TO GET OUT
TO ANOTHER BELT OF RADIATION
WHICH IS GOING TO CRISP YOU COMPLETELY
AND
YOU WILL DIE
BUT THERE WILL BE AN
ESSENCE
LEFT THAT WILL GET THROUGH.
NOW: WHO WOULD LIKE TO VOLUNTEER?
READY?

WELL: COULDN'T WE MAKE
A SPECIALLY INSULATED SUIT?
NO. SORRY. CAN'T DO IT.
BUT: IF YOU PROPEL HARD ENOUGH
THERE WILL BE GOING THROUGH
THERE WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WILL
GET THROUGH TO THE OTHER SIDE
WE CAN'T REALLY DEFINE WHAT YOU'LL BE ...
BUT YOU'LL BE BEYOND THAT
WHY WOULD ANYONE GO ON A TRIP LIKE THAT?
ADVENTURE?
WELL: THE ONE THING ABOUT AN ADVENTURE IS:
THE ADVENTURER WANTS TO STAY AROUND
AND ADVENTURE. AND:
IF HE'S GOING TO BE CRISPED IN THE PROCESS
THERE'S GOING TO BE NO ADVENTURER LEFT
TO HAVE HAD THE ADVENTURE.

BUT YOU SEE: THERE'S SOMETHING THAT
PULLS A PERSON TOWARD THIS JOURNEY
WAY AWAY BACK
DEEP INSIDE
IS A MEMORY
THERE IS SOMETHING
INSIDE EACH OF US
THAT COMES FROM BEHIND THAT VEIL

BEHIND THE PLACE OF OUR OWN BIRTH
IT'S AS IF YOU HAVE TASTED OF SOMETHING
SOMEWHERE IN YOUR PAST
THAT'S BEEN SO HIGH
SO MUCH LIGHT
SO MUCH ENERGY
THAT NOTHING YOU CAN EXPERIENCE
THROUGH ANY OF YOUR
SENSES
OR YOUR THOUGHTS
CAN BE ENOUGH!

SOMEWHERE INSIDE
EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT THERE IS A PLACE
WHICH IS TOTALLY FULFILLING
NOT A DESPERATE FLICK OF FULFILLMENT
IT IS A
STATE OF FULFILLMENT

There are no ancient symbols, without a deep and philosophical meaning
attached to them; their importance and significance increasing with
their antiquity. Such is the Lotus. It is
the flower sacred to nature and her Gods, and represents the
abstract and the Concrete Universes, standing as the emblem of the
productive powers of both spiritual and physical nature. It was held
sacred from the remotest antiquity by the Aryan Hindus, the
Egyptians, and the Buddhists after them; revered in China and Japan,
and adopted as a Christian emblem by the Greek and Latin Churches,
who made of it a messenger as the Christians do now, who replace it
with the water lily. It had, and still has, its mystic meaning
which is identical with every nation on the earth. We refer the
reader to Sir William Jones. With the Hindus, the lotus is the
emblem of the productive power of nature, through the agency of fire
and water. “Eternal!” says a verse in the Bhagavad Gita, “I see Brahm the creator enthroned in thee above the
lotus!”; and Sir W. Jones shows, as noted in the Stanzas, that the
seeds of the lotus contain, even before they germinate,
perfectly-formed leaves, the miniature shapes of what one day, as
perfected plants, they will become. The lotus, in India, is the
symbol of prolific earth, and what is more, of Mount Meru. The four
angels or genii of the four quarters of Heaven stand each on a lotus. The lotus is the two-fold
type of the Divine and human hermaphrodite, being of dual sex, so to
say.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

YOU MAY EXPERIENCE DESPAIR
THAT YOU'LL EVER KNOW THAT.
GOOD! BECAUSE THROUGH THE DESPAIR
AND THROUGH
THAT SURRENDER
COMES SURRENDER
YOU GET CLOSER TO IT.

AND WHAT KEEPS YOU FROM
THAT PLACE
THAT GIVES YOU THAT
TOTAL FEELING
EXPERIENCE
KNOWINGOF FULFILLMENT IS
ALL OF THIS POSTURING ALL OF YOUR THOUGHTS
ALL YOUR WAY OF ORGANIZING YOUR WORLD
ALL OF YOUR PLANS ALL OF YOUR GAMES
YOUR EXPLORING.

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